Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece ...

Sri Lanka’s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage celebrated its 50th anniversary with a grand fruit feast for its 68 elephants.

The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage lavished pineapples, bananas, melons and cucumbers on its residents to celebrate the ...

THE nation's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre ...

Visitors feed fruits to elephants at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawala on Sunday. Sri Lanka’s main elephant ...

Sri Lanka’s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage celebrates its 50th anniversary with a grand fruit feast for its 68 resident ...

Sri Lanka’s main elephant ­orphanage has marked its 50th ­anniversary with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece ...

Located 90 km from Colombo in Rambukkana, the orphanage was inaugurated in 1975. “This was started with five baby elephants ...

The orphanage opened in 1975, but Sri Lanka is also now facing a human-elephant conflict in areas bordering traditional wildlife sanctuaries.

Sri Lanka's Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage celebrates 50 years of providing sanctuary to elephants. Inaugurated in 1975 with five elephants, it now houses 69. The facility cares for strays and injured ...